Lancashire and South Cumbria
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02-05-01 Vasodilator antihypertensive drugs

Hydralazine
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Tablets 25mg, 50mg

Hypertension


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Hydralazine
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Tablets 25mg, 50mg

Heart failure

Initiated in hospital or under specialist supervision.

Link  NG106: Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management

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Sildenafil
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Tablets 20mg

Tertiary centre only.
Sildenafil and bosentan are licensed for use in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Treatment of this condition is commissioned nationally through a small number of PAH centres based in hospitals across the UK.
All patients should be referred to one of these centres, who carry out all prescribing of these therapies.

Link  MHRA Drug Safety Update Nov 18: Sildenafil (Revatio and Viagra): reports of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) following in-utero exposure in a clinical trial on intrauterine growth restriction

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Sodium Nitroprusside
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Injection 50mg vials

 unlicensed unlicensed

For specialist use only.


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Hydralazine
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Injection 20mg/2mL

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